Premini Thanuskodi was a minority Sri Lankan Tamil women who was working as a Chief Accountant for

Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation The Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) was established in 1985 in Tamil Nadu in southeastern India by Sri Lankan Tamil refugees fleeing the violence in North and East Sri Lanka. Its initial operation was to provide relief to the refugees i ...

(TRO), a legally registered charity in Sri Lanka, when she was kidnapped on 30 June 2006 and was later raped and murdered. She was 25 years old. Premini was also an undergraduate at the Eastern university at Vantharumoolai.

Incident

Premini Thanuskodi, along with other TRO employees, was travelling to

Kilinochchi Kilinochchi (; ) is the main town of Kilinochchi District, Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Kilinochchi is situated at the A9 road some south-east of Jaffna. It was the administrative center and de facto capital of the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) until ...

when the group stopped at the checkpoint at Welikanda near

Batticaloa Batticaloa (, ''Maṭṭakkaḷappu'', ; , ''Maḍakalapuwa'', ) is a major city in the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, and its former capital. It is the administrative capital of the Batticaloa District. The city is the seat of the Eastern Univers ...

. After that they saw a white van chasing them which later overtook them. Armed men in the van kidnapped them and took their vehicle to a nearby jungle. They were kept overnight and a few TRO employees were released after being interrogated, during which they were tortured by the

TMVP Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP; , ), formerly known as the "Karuna Group", is a political party in Sri Lanka. It was formed by Karuna Amman (Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan), a former leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, after he de ...

intelligence chief Sitha on the allegation of belonging to the intelligence wing of the LTTE. The male TRO employees who failed to convince the TMVP cadres of their innocence were killed. Later Premini was gang raped and was killed, and her body was dumped in the bushes.

Reaction

The TRO complained to the Sri Lankan police and blamed the Tamil paramilitary of

. There were appeals from Amnesty International expressing concerns about the group's safety.

Government reaction

The Sri Lankan President called for a probe, however no one has been arrested or charged.Swift probe ordered on TRO abductions
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